Had the three grandparents/parents visit for labor day. Moms set up the girls' room while Dads set up the random things around the house that needed to be moved, sawed, sanded, etc. Lots of cleaning, cooking, and playing uno was had. Things were looking up in the house!
Baby was due on September 4th. No baby yet. Lucky too as on September 4th Madeline broke her arm while at the kindergarten open house. We spent the evening and we smas at the Duke ER where we learned she has a radial head fracture (elbow) and will be in a long plaster cast for a few weeks as it heals. We've spent the past four days convincing her that casts are ok, she didn't do anything wrong or bad (where this idea has come from we've yet to figure out), and that she should indeed eat ice cream.
See, Friday night we went out to eat at our favorite local place as we'd basically been on the couch all day and needed food. Madeline got home and threw it all up and then Harris was sick the rest of the night. We all ate the same thing/off each other's plates so who knows why they got sick and I did not, but washing a pathetic girl in a new cast is not fun. All weekend she complained that her stomach was upset, so we basically tried to tempt her with any food at all. Want to nibble bites of chocolate ice cream. Perfect. Want to eat four raspberries? Sounds like a great idea. Want to sleep until noon and then move to the couch to watch movies? Ok, we can do that.
She's at school today and hopefully will be feeling fine when she gets home.
Next stage baby appointments are scheduled for Thursday - if the girl doesn't arrive by then the midwives will try to coax her along. Madeline has follow up appointments with an orthopedist Wednesday morning to make sure her arm is healing and to see if they can find the fracture this time.
And now she needs surgery on said arm.
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